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...cinema-size screen is showing continuously a 1-min., 45-sec. clip of the Bamiyan explosions - the great clouds of smoke and dust when, despite pleas to the Taliban from around the world, the giant Buddhas were blasted on March 11. Monreal says the muffled shouting is mainly Allah Akbar , Allah is Great...
...Monday morning the Alliance had established a new command post at the northeast tower on top of what an American commander described as "10 tons of munitions, rockets, mortars, the works." A tank was driven onto the tower. From his seat on the garrison roof, commander Mohammed Akbar guided mortar and tank fire to Taliban positions in the southwest. "Excellent--right on the nose!" he shouted, as bullets from Taliban snipers whizzed just over his head. Then came the next mistake...
...from the southwest tower, commander Akbar estimated Taliban strength at "1 1/2" men. On the field below lay hundreds of dead and dying. Two embraced in death. Alliance soldiers stepped gingerly over the bodies. Some of the dead had their hands bound, and Alliance soldiers used scissors to snip off the strings. At 2:10 p.m. Akbar decided all the Taliban fighters were dead and walked down onto the field. His men, by now plainly spooked by the suicidal bravery of the Taliban, had to be forced to break cover. One wounded Taliban soldier, lying in the long grass...
...symbolize that is [having] the British and Iranian Foreign Ministers on the same platform," says a Foreign Office official. Despite Khamenei's stridency, British sources say Straw left talks with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi concluding that Iran would remain neutral during any attack. On Friday former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, "If the U.S. decides not to impose its own will, we are ready to join the antiterrorism coalition under the umbrella of the United Nations, despite our differences with the United States." Whether Iran acts on words like these depends on complex and competing forces within the country...
...It’s kind of unnerving that an actual physical attack happened right in what’s sort of the center of our universe,” Akbar said. “I’m shocked because it happened at Harvard, but I’m not shocked that it happened...